Israeli Startups Look for Atlanta Partners to Drive Future of Mobility  – Global Atlanta

A bunch of 10 Israeli startups visited Georgia Tech earlier this month to pitch options serving to steer the way forward for related vehicles.  

The delegation was led by Drive TLV, an incubator centered on sensible mobility, which visited Atlanta after a cease in Silicon Valley and headed afterward to Detroit.  

Throughout an occasion held at Georgia Tech’s Middle for Deliberate Innovation on the CODA Constructing, Drive TLV co-founder Tal Cohen joined a panel with representatives from two Atlanta firms enjoying a key position within the automotive house: Cox Automotive, which supplies sellers with software program for gross sales, stock monitoring, advertising and marketing and extra; in addition to Novelis, the aluminum producer which is increasing its buyer base within the auto sector as extra producers incorporate the comparatively gentle metallic into their autos to enhance gasoline mileage or electrical vary. Novelis is a accomplice of Drive TLV, primarily based within the Israeli tech hub of Tel Aviv. Each firms hosted visits by the Drive TLV startups earlier within the day.  

World Atlanta’s content material accomplice Hypepotamus reported on the dialogue that includes Derek Prichett, senior vice chairman of company growth at Novelis, and Joe George, president of Cox Automotive Mobility Options. They mentioned autonomous automobile expertise, ride-sharing, fleet administration and the way sustainably recovering supplies on the finish of a automotive’s life will develop into much more essential within the age of electrification. Startups, they stated, might discover alternatives in battery chemistry and last-mile supply. View the total article right here 

Dr. Cohen, a serial entrepreneur and former Georgia Tech professor, stated Atlanta and Israel share a “heritage of innovation,” in keeping with Hypepotamus, which additionally highlighted strides within the automotive house for a metropolis located on the heart of the Southeast’s automotive manufacturing hall:  

Atlanta has an extended historical past within the mobility, automotive, and transportation companies. Nevertheless it additionally has a rising startup scene centered on the house, together with accelerators and partnerships solid up at Peachtree Nook’s Curiosity Lab, and quite a lot of startups engaged on fleet logistics.

Maybe much more connections between the 2 areas might be solid after the ten startups pitched their concepts to the Atlanta mobility group this week. 

Dr. Cohen can be vice chair of Atlanta-based Conexx, the American Israel Enterprise Connector, which features as a kind of Israeli chamber for the Southeast U.S. 

The Israeli startups pitched applied sciences similar to AI-based radar notion, micro-grid expertise, thermal administration to enhance EV battery life, location-based voice interplay and rather more. 

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